A crucial component of examining any given genre is understanding its musical vocabulary: how artists utilize motifs, themes, or instruments to convey the message of a given piece, and how that fits ...

ComingSoon can exclusively reveal the trailer for Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues. Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues is a new documentary about the legendary music icon.

James Cotton, who learned to play the harmonica as a child in the Mississippi Delta and went on to be a major figure in blues music as a sideman to Muddy Waters and as a Grammy Award-winning solo ...

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There's only a few living blues legends left, including B.B. King and Buddy Guy. And then there's harmonica master James Cotton. Born in Mississippi, Cotton heard Sonny Boy Williamson on the radio and ...